CVE-2026-43094

MEDIUM

ixgbevf: add missing negotiate_features op to Hyper-V ops table

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbevf: add missing negotiate_features op to Hyper-V ops table Commit a7075f501bd3 ("ixgbevf: fix mailbox API compatibility by negotiating supported features") added the .negotiate_features callback to ixgbe_mac_operations and populated it in ixgbevf_mac_ops, but forgot to add it to ixgbevf_hv_mac_ops. This leaves the function pointer NULL on Hyper-V VMs. During probe, ixgbevf_negotiate_api() calls ixgbevf_set_features(), which unconditionally dereferences hw->mac.ops.negotiate_features(). On Hyper-V this results in a NULL pointer dereference: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [...] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine [...] Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn RIP: 0010:0x0 [...] Call Trace: ixgbevf_negotiate_api+0x66/0x160 [ixgbevf] ixgbevf_sw_init+0xe4/0x1f0 [ixgbevf] ixgbevf_probe+0x20f/0x4a0 [ixgbevf] local_pci_probe+0x50/0xa0 work_for_cpu_fn+0x1a/0x30 [...] Add ixgbevf_hv_negotiate_features_vf() that returns -EOPNOTSUPP and wire it into ixgbevf_hv_mac_ops. The caller already handles -EOPNOTSUPP gracefully.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (21)
Linux/Linux < 6.18
Linux/Linux 2e0aab9ddaf1428602c78f12064cd1e6ffcc4d18 - d8a747057a17ffc79e31df1abb11d05e1669d8e5
Linux/Linux 6.1.158 - 6.2
Linux/Linux 6.12.55 - 6.12.83
Linux/Linux 6.12.83 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.17.5 - 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18.24 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.14 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.114 - 6.6.136
... and 11 more
Published May 06, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026